Over the last two years, UBC Wiki has transformed UBC Libraryâs approach to content management. Working in conjunction with multiple WordPress websites as delivery tools, UBC Library staff are able to use the wiki as an open space to collaborate and build online content that is automatically republished across multiple UBC Library and University websites. This process challenges previously locked-down content management systems, and empowers staff to edit and share content to benefit the campus community. UBCâs Centre for Teaching and Learning Technology (CTLT) are driving this innovative approach, providing several web publishing services to the UBC community, including WordPress (as UBC CMS) and MediaWiki (as UBC Wiki). Multiple faculties, departments, and individual users, including UBC Library and the Learning Commons, have been adopting the wiki as a convenient centralized repository for web that offers the capability to seamlessly push content to multiple websites. This session will feature a panel of four speakers who worked collaboratively on this innovative approach to content management at UBC. Two CTLT staff members (Novak Rogic, Manager, Web Strategy, and Will Engle, Wiki Administrator) will speak from their perspectives of building and administrating the UBC CMS/Wiki service. Two Librarians (Julie Mitchell, Learning Commons Coordinator, and Paul Joseph, Systems Librarian) will address how the UBC Library is effectively using the system as a shared knowledge base and publishing UBC Wiki content to various UBC CMS websites.

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